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Snubco International recently completed a wellhead freeze job and training session in China. A Snubco Well Control crew was in China commissioning a freeze unit built by Snubco Manufacturing and supplying some hands on training to our Chinese customers. A wellhead freeze was performed on a sour well and all casing and wellhead valves were changed out. Snubco would like to thank the Chinese for their continued use of Snubco services and the support they supply our crews.

Snubco International - Well Control divison - has recently completed snubbing operations on a drilling rig in Eastern Europe with a well control issues. Snubco employees were dispatched to Hungary to assist the customer with finishing the well. Snubco employees using a Snubco Manufacturing rig assist jack based in Romania, successfully recovered the drill stem test tools, round tripped a cleanout string and deployed a liner. Congratulations to our well control team on another job well done. We would like to thank SOS Well Services of Medias Romania for their co-operation and making the unit and crew available for this project.

Snubco Pressure Control recently completed a rig assist snubbing job using a 70mPa stripping ram BOP assembly in Hinton, Alberta. Snubco Pressure Control would like to thank Denny Deren and his company Foxxhole Evacuation Systems Ltd. for their cooperation and active participation in supplying the egress system for this job. Snubco would also like to thank the crew members from Snubco unit S19 for another job well done.

                                                        S19 with 15K stripping rams

                            S19 rigged in with Foxxhole Evactuation System

Snubco Well Services is pleased to announce the newest addition to it's fleet C1, C3 & C5. This new conventional coil tubing unit is capable of 4000 meters of 38.1mm tubing and 3600 meters 50.8mm tubing. This newest unit joined our fleet Jan 17, 2007.

Safety Stand Down Week – January 15 – 19, 2007

 The Snubco Group of Companies firmly believes in participating in Safety Stand Down Week each year to express management’s ongoing commitment to our safety program. Senior Managers go out to meet with each member of every crew in order to discuss any safety suggestions or concerns.  This year our President, three other Owners, Grande Prairie Operations Manager and three members from our Safety Department went out into the field during Safety Stand Down Week.

The feedback was very positive and informative regarding various ways that we can improve our safety program. During Safety Stand Down Week S-4, S-19, S-18, S-17, N2, SC1, S-22, S-15 and N6 were all visited. The main topic of discussion was safe driving including weather conditions, defensive driving, driver fatigue and other hazards that may be encountered on the road. A key point being that driving safely is a conscious decision that has to be made and that safe driving should be done all the time, not just when at work. Overall safety stand down week proved to be very successful in obtaining safety suggestions to further create a positive safety culture at Snubco.

Latest News - Canadian - October 2006

IRP 15 - Snubbing Operations: The review period of IRP 15 closes October 27 / 06. IRP 15 is the industry recommended practices for the snubbing industry. The IRP can be viewed at: http://www.enform.ca/. Suggestions and or opinions can be forwarded to PSAC: http://www.psac.ca/ or Snubco:  http://www.snubco.com/

A PDF version of IRP 15 can be downloaded here.

Pre job calculation worksheet: Please follow the link below and try out Snubco's new pipe buckling calculator.
Pre job Calculation Worksheet